• Switzerland - Day 1

    Last updated on 17th of November, 2014.

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    The start of a long overdue photo series on my trip to Switzerland and Italy in 2010. It was to be the last family trip overseas in some time, and I still treasure these moments.

    The above spread was taken at the Rhine Falls, near the town of SchaffHausen in northern Switzerland and the largest waterfall in Europe.

    After the Rhine Falls, we make our way to Titisee, which lies in the southern Black Forest of Germany. We reach the border customs, and the benefits of Schengen Area makes itself apparent. We make it through without a hitch and reach Titisee without much fanfare. By now it is dusk, and we wander around for a while, visiting the famous cuckoo clock shop.

    We retire for the night at a hotel up a small mountain overlooking the city of Lucerne, but not before the bus is retrofitted with snow chains, in the middle of the dark, while we are making our way up.

  • Runder

    Last updated on 16th of November, 2014.

    Runder is a rudimentary clone of CodePen that I wrote to see how much I could accomplish in a span of 24 hours.

    It leverages on Google Caja’s cajoling to “tame” user-submitted code before it is executed. Syntax highlighting and autocomplete is accomplished with Ace.

    All in all, it was a rewarding experience. I also got to present Runder at NUS Hackers last Friday!

    nus-hackers-runder

    Definitely one of the defining pictures of my technical career.

    Looking Forward

    I’d definitely look into the option of including libraries, such as Bootstrap and jQuery. This might be useful for people to get acquainted with libraries without having to do so locally.

    Also, could it be possible to do client-side generation of encoded URLs so that users can share their code?

    Runder on GitHub

  • Reborn

    Last updated on 15th of November, 2014.

    It took me 2 years of rumination and good-ol’ procrastination to finally get my website back up on its feet. I think I might have more to say than my self 2 years ago, so let’s hope it stays up.

    Also, over the course of the next few months, I will also be manually importing my old travelogue archive into this new incarnation, complete with my old writings and photos. It’ll be nice to revisit.